Re: Partition sizes - again...

1997-04-28 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Carl Privitt wrote: > /var 64MB > /tmp 64MB I've found on a box with a few hundred users, you had better allocate a LOT more for /var. I mounted a 1 Gig drive as /var, and gave the users a 5 MB quota on the filesystem. I also put 300 MB on /tmp... Of course,

Re: Partition sizes - again...

1997-04-28 Thread Carl Privitt
On Apr 24, Rick Jones wrote > Anyway. I've never even thought of running Linux across partitions so if > anyone has a good layout for root - usr partitions I would be > appreciative. I use the following layout on 5 Debian boxes. All of my machines have either 16 or 32 megs of memory. One of

Re: Partition sizes - again...

1997-04-24 Thread Dima
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: ... >4) Do some creative addition or multiplication to calculate how much >additional space to alot in each partiton beyond present usage (crystal >ball-land.) In particular, think about apps that use /tmp -- gcc does, and if your /tmp is on small root par

Re: Partition sizes - again...

1997-04-24 Thread Edward McKnight
If your existing system is about what you want except for partitioning you can figure it out for yourself. This example assumes you're starting with one large partition and want to calculate sizes for the same system using multiple partitions. 1) decide on which partitions to use: - root swa